Lexicographical Neighbors of Showbox
Literary usage of Showbox
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Map of Africa by Treaty by Edward Hertslet, Great Britain (1894)
"... and confirmed by him in such cases as they are made in the name of His Highness.
Cession to Association of Rights over Lands (except " showbox"). ..."
2. The last days of Pompeii, by the author of 'Pelham'. by sir E. Bulwer Lytton by Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1854)
"It was a toy, a plaything, a showbox, in which the gods seemed pleased to keep
the representation of the great monarchy of earth, and which they afterwards ..."
3. The Book of Love by Madison Julius Cawein (1911)
"Honest soul! thou didst look into it with as much innocency of heart, as ever
child looked into a raree- showbox; and 'twere as much a sin to have hurt thee ..."
4. Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1882)
"... page recalls to his memory a chivalrous deed performed by us, in rescuing the
showbox of such a couple from a mob of great double-fisted countrymen. ..."
5. Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1882)
"While the merry girl and myself were busy with the showbox, the unceasing rain
had driven another wayfarer into the wagon. He seemed pretty nearly of the ..."
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